Posted on 05/04/2017 8:35:37 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The U.S. National Security Agency collected more than 151 million records of Americans' phone calls last year, even after Congress limited its ability to collect bulk phone records, according to an annual report issued on Tuesday by the top U.S. intelligence officer.
The report said the names of 1,934 "U.S. persons" were "unmasked" last year in response to specific requests, compared with 2,232 in 2015, but it did not identify who requested the names or on what grounds.
The report from the office of Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats was the first measure of the effects of the 2015 USA Freedom Act, which limited the NSA to collecting phone records and contacts of people U.S. and allied intelligence agencies suspect may have ties to terrorism.
It found that the NSA collected the 151 million records even though it had warrants from the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance court to spy on only 42 terrorism suspects in 2016, in addition to a handful identified the previous year.
The report said that on one occasion in 2016, the FBI obtained information about an American in response to a search of Section 702 data intended to produce evidence of a crime not related to foreign intelligence.
The report did not address how frequently the FBI obtained information about Americans while investigating a foreign intelligence matter, however.
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Because the Congress and the President don’t matter anymore.
The agencies do what they want because who’s going to stop them? Some silly elected politicians?
They don’t matter. The guys with the guns and the cool spy stuff do.
Everyone else is little people.
The IC is a de-facto COUNTRY with its own Personnel, policies and equipment, to some extent its own funding, and lies within America.
And it **occupies** America.
Over-sight?
Most of these committees are staffed w/ the embedded, oldest, senile pieces of shit in Congress that have the GALL to act w/ “righteous indignation” that something like *this* would EVER happen. They wear their shocked-face until the cameras are off and in the back-room, then back each other on the back and have another ‘round....on the taxpayer dime.
DOJ?? FBI? Only if the law-breaking was done by any pleeb.
We don’t even grown our own bananas to be called a Banana Republic!
Neither party cares.
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